I'm never gonna get you lot to Australia, am I?
(Note, link NSFW - much swearing. Also NSFZelda - contains picture of big funnelweb spider)
http://www.badassoftheweek.com/australia.html
I once nearly trod on a Red-bellied Black Snake warming itself on a step on a bushwalk. We also had one "chase" us back up the hill of a ski run in summer (I suspect it was just trying to get back to its safe-spot when we scared it, and we were in the way). We've had heaps of White-Lipped Snakes scooting off the path in front of us while walking up above the treeline in the Snowy Mountains National Park in summer. I also had to kill, with a large rock, a Red-Bellied Black that had been run over by a car on a dirt road in Kanangra-Boyd National Park. My grandparents had a 2-metre Carpet Python on their property, mostly living around the old shed cement slab, that the Kookaburras would bother when it ventured over their side of the property. It would give you a scare when it moved out of the grass next to you and away. Maggie (one of my dogs) tried to chase an even bigger Carpet Python off the path down in Noosa Woods. We met a Tree Snake on the ground on one of our morning dog walks - got close to treading on that one too, especially the dogs.
Only the Red-Bellied Blacks were in any way "dangerous" in the above though. As a kid, I (well, my brother - but I'd pretend it was mine) used to have a dead sea snake in a jar too, found on Stockton Beach.
So, when you visiting?
Cheers,
Marc